"The Maid" and "The Hangman": Myth and Tradition in a Popular Ballad, Volume 21 |
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... Scottish balladry ; it occurs in variants of fifty - two ballads . " Since only a handful of these texts are from English tradition , and since a great many of them are associated with " daughter " or another family appellation such as ...
... Scottish balladry ; it occurs in variants of fifty - two ballads . " Since only a handful of these texts are from English tradition , and since a great many of them are associated with " daughter " or another family appellation such as ...
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... Scottish , and three American variants ( A1 , A10 , A6 , A26 , A28 ) add " riding " ( Cb2 ) ; the Australian A2 has " walking " ( Cb3 ) ; the Scottish AS and A9 have " wandering " ; the English A14 has " tumbling " ; and A13 and A25 ...
... Scottish , and three American variants ( A1 , A10 , A6 , A26 , A28 ) add " riding " ( Cb2 ) ; the Australian A2 has " walking " ( Cb3 ) ; the Scottish AS and A9 have " wandering " ; the English A14 has " tumbling " ; and A13 and A25 ...
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... Scottish preponderance that was recorded for that common- place formula . Of the fifty - seven ballads featuring " fee " in the sense of " charge for services , " twenty - almost all Scottish - use the formula " pay a fee . " This for ...
... Scottish preponderance that was recorded for that common- place formula . Of the fifty - seven ballads featuring " fee " in the sense of " charge for services , " twenty - almost all Scottish - use the formula " pay a fee . " This for ...
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Alan Lomax Alcestis American b1 Dala Eal b3 Cal bl Ba3 b3 Cal ballad text balladry Bertrand Bronson Bertrand H Bronson Cal b1 Dala cante-fable Captain Car century Charon Child Ballad County Dala Eal b3 daughter Eal b3 Fa2b English Fa2a Fa2b father Folk Song Folklore Folksongs Gallows Tree German Gf1b Hal Gfla Hal Gglb gold and fee gold and silver gold to set golden ball Gypsies hangman Heer Halewijn hold your hand I(VI INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES INDIANENSIS injunction Irish Julius Krohn LC-AFS Leadbelly London Losgekaufte Maid Freed MDCCCXX melodic mid-cadence Moses Gaster mother motif n.d. reported narrative North Carolina oral tradition pay my fee prickly bush ransom Reed Smith refrain reported as learned reported by Davis rhyme Sabine Baring-Gould Scottish set me free Settlement School SIGILLUM slack the rope Songs stanza textual Traditional Tunes variants VERITAS victim Virginia Volkslieder yonder Ваб